Example sentences of "it [not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill farming demands very hard work for marginal returns and were it not for government subsidies for hill sheep and cattle , many hill farmers would have to give up . |
| 2 | Were it not for Papa 's dollars I would not look at her twice ! |
| 3 | These chemical reactions would normally proceed very slowly were it not for Nature 's invention of complex molecules called enzymes , which we have also met before in this chapter . |
| 4 | There would be no free oxygen in the atmosphere even today were it not for photosynthesis . |
| 5 | If you want it not to work use the slash B Okay slash B and that 's it . |
| 6 | Is it not in order for Back Benchers at least to ask the Prime Minister whether the policies that are being promoted by the Opposition will most emphatically not be adopted by this Government ? |
| 7 | But some of his work is still not available in modern French , and most of it not in English . |
| 8 | With the recent mushrooming of the AA 's commercial interests was it not in danger of becoming a big shop rather than a service organisation ? |
| 9 | Is it not in fact much more extraordinary that our minister appears to find such a statement positively generous and reassuring and has no sense of its presumption ? |